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Quotes About Transition

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.
~ David Bowie
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
~ Theodore Bikel
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
~ Elena Roger
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
~ Rollo May
Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.
~ Patricia Penton Leimbach
Every age is an unknown country.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
~ Sam Donaldson
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.
~ Helen Van Slyke
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
~ Horace
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
~ Sarah Dessen
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
~ Shannon Fife
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
~ Umberto Eco
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
~ Terence McKenna
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
~ William Lilly
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
~ Saul Bellow
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
~ John Cusack
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
~ John Pople
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
~ Joni Mitchell
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
~ Julie Kagawa
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
~ Laura Lippman
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
~ Marcia Cross
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
It is time to be old To take in sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson